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Week 31 – My Favorite Game

Emily

My favorite game is Candy Land.

The first thing is to open the box and pick our guys. There are cupcakes and stuff like that. You get the board out and you have to try and get your guy to the candy castle fastest. When it’s your turn you pick up a card to see how much you move. Or else, if you don’t use the card, people will just go up to the candy castle in one turn. So we have to use the cards. The cards have squares on them. So if there are 2 blocks, or 4 or 3 or 1, then you move the number of blocks that are on your card. You have to wait your turn before you pick up your card.

When you reach the candy castle you get lots of REAL candy for winning the game! You also get lots of desserts. And I mean that!

The End

Week 30 – Where Am I?

Language Arts 2

A journal of a Roman soldier, Antonius, transported through time to be in our world today.

April 27, 117 AD

Where am I? I saw people go into a horse carriage that moved without a horse! I saw one press down a thing with his foot and this carriage without a horse started to move very quickly. I also saw people pickup a little tablet, put it on their ear, and start talking to themselves. I thought these people were going crazy!

Then I walked into a place that had a sign that said “Shooting Range.” I saw a thing that looked like a giant bar with things sticking down at the end. And when you pulled something back it made a big loud noise. There was a little target down at the end and when they pulled back the little thing that made the big noise there was a hole in the target. I thought this was magic. I was too afraid to try one myself. I started to wonder if those things can make holes in armor.

I decided to go back home. I found the machine that had let me come to here and I hopped in it again and it brought me back home.

The End

Week 29 – Give It a Try!

Language Arts 2

Dear Mommy and Daddy,

May we please play with our Lego?

Lego is fun to build stuff with, so we can learn to be more creative when we are older. We already have made neat creations, like when Dad opened the door to our room and shut it again and then a Lego sword went swinging down at him. (That one was using twine and tape.)

Lego also helps you follow instructions. When you have to build things like shelves when you’re older and it comes with instructions on how to build it, you can follow them.

You can also make your own toys out of Lego so you don’t have to go to the store and buy other toys. You can just build them. We also can build stuff we are learning about. Plus we read books and build the stuff that they mention out of Lego. Like when Nathan built a blue sword from the Hobbit.

All the kids like to play with Lego. The girls like to build houses, and the boys like to build weapons that we can use (not Lego mini-figure weapons). And the axe that I made has a secret compartment inside it.

I’m sorry for making the Lego table a big mess and not keeping it organized. We promise we will clean up the Lego table when you ask us to. We won’t leave the Lego on the floor. And we will clean up all the Lego on the floor that we used to be playing with.

May we please have our Lego back?

Love,
Gabe

Week 26 – Fairy Tale Smash-up

Emily

A smash up between Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood.

One day Little Red Riding Hood was baking a loaf of bread for Granny when the doorbell rang. Little Red Riding Hood had just put the loaf of bread in the oven and she went to go see who it was. Then she opened the door just a little bit and saw Snow White. Snow White said, “Please let me in, my step-mother, the Queen, is trying to kill me!” So Little Red Riding Hood said, “OK. I will let you in for a little bit. We’ll work together to get that Queen!”

Little Red Riding and Snow White went together to Granny’s house on the other side of the woods. They brought the loaf of bread for Granny. When Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood went in the room they found Snow White’s step-mother lying in the bed. Snow White said, “Granny! She looks like my step-mother.” The Queen tried to sound like Granny and said, “Please give me that loaf of bread.”

Little Red Riding Hood said, “Nope! I don’t think you’re Granny because you look like Snow White’s step-mother.” Then the Big Bad Wolf appeared from the closet. He said, “I want to eat you all up!”

Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood ran away and as they ran away they yelled “Help!” The Big Bad Wolf scraped the mean old step-mother with his claws. Then he bit off her head. That was the end of the mean old step-mother.

Then Little Red Riding Hood’s father came. He chopped off the wolf’s head with his axe. And they all lived happily ever after.

The End.

Week 27 – Imagination 

Abigail, Language Arts 1

I lived in a castle with my brothers, sisters, Mommy and Daddy. I was a beautiful princess. I loved to go out for adventures and not just sit in the castle all day. One day I really, really wanted to go on an adventure but Mommy and Daddy said no. But when Mommy and Daddy weren’t looking, I snuck out the door and went looking for an adventure (even though they told me not to).

I went out of the castle and it was a hot day so I went to the river. When I got to the river there was already people there. I saw my brothers and sisters and Mommy and Daddy! I was so surprised. How could this be? Maybe it was my birthday? Wait a minute. It can’t be my birthday because it is summer and my birthday is in December!

“How did you get here before me?” I said. “We drove in the car,” said Emily.
“Hunh? I didn’t even see you guys get in the car.”

Then I saw Daddy get out the fishing rods. When all the fishing rods were in our hands, Mommy told us the rules. When Mommy was done telling the rules we started fishing. Sophia got none (because she doesn’t know how to fish). Emily got 2. I got 3. Gabe got 4. Nathan got 5. Mommy got 6. And Daddy got 7. And Joshua didn’t get any because he doesn’t know how to fish and he is too small.

We cut up the fish and ate sushi on the beach.

Then we went home.

The End.

Week 24 – Persuade (Spam Sushi)

Abigail, Language Arts 1

Dad, let’s make spam sushi today! I like spam sushi because I like the spam inside. And, I like the seaweed on the outside and I like Soy Sauce with it. My brothers and sisters REALLY like it too! We should have it because it is healthy for us and everyone will finish their food quickly, completely and wisely. We will also help by bringing the food to the table. Afterwords, we will help clear the table, wipe and sweep. While the boys are wiping and sweeping, I will do the dishes. Mom and Dad will be very proud of me! Please can we have spam sushi?

Week 21 – Story Elaboration

Emily

Bill climbed a hill. He saw a city below.

Bill climbed a hill by pulling on a string tied to a branch because the hill was a very steep hill. He climbed up when no one was looking. It took him just a short time to climb the hill because he used his string.

When he came to the top of the hill, he saw a city with a big sandbox in the middle with lots of children. There were two cities beside it with children running and some of them were playing leap-frog. This made one big, big, big city that was full of kids.

The End

Week 21 – Read-Aloud Summary

Emily

Are You My Mother?

A mother bird sat on her egg, and her egg jumped. She thought the egg would hatch today and she also thought the bird would want to eat. So off she flew. The egg jumped, and jumped, and jumped, and jumped. And then, out came a baby bird. And he said, “Where is my mother? I must find her.”

He closed his eyes and walked with his eyes closed and then, down, down, down, he fell. He walked right past his mother and didn’t notice her but soon he came to a cat, then a hen, then a dog, then a cow. And they all said, “I’m not your mother.” He called to a car, a boat, a bulldozer, but they were not his mother. The bulldozer dropped him right in his nest and soon his mother came. His mother said, “Do you know who I am?” He said, “Yes, I know who you are, you’re not a cat, or a hen, or a dog, or a cow, or a car, or a boat, or a bulldozer, you are a bird and you are my mother!”

The End

Week 19 – Story Starter

Abigail, Language Arts 1

Once upon a time I didn’t know that I was soaring in air. I thought I was flying but I don’t have wings. So how could I be up in the air if I don’t have wings? I would just fall down. But that wouldn’t be true. So I looked down and I saw that I was on bird skin. I looked down from the bird and I saw Emily riding on her bike and I called down, “EMILY!” And Emily heard me and looked up. Emily said, “How did you get up there Abigail? Can I come up too?”
“How will you get up?” called Abigail.
Emily said, “I don’t know. Maybe the bird will come down and I will get on. Do you know how to steer the bird?” asked Emily.
Abigail said, “No. How will I get the bird down?”

Abigail also saw Gabe riding on his bike. Emily stopped her bike, put it on the grass, and called Gabe and said, “Look up Gabe! Look up Gabe!”
Then Gabe looked up and saw Abigail in the sky and Gabe scratched his head. “Emily,” he said, “How did she get up there?”
“I don’t know” said Emily.

Then Abigail had an idea. “I know,” said Abigail. “How ’bout I tell the bird to come down!”
“How will you do that?” asked Emily. “The bird doesn’t know what you are saying.”
“Well then,” said Abigail, “I will yell really loud and call Mommy and Daddy.”

When Mommy and Daddy came they said, “Abigail, how are you going to get down?”
“I don’t know” said Abigail.
Daddy said, “Maybe we can grab long ladder, climb up that ladder, grab Abigail, climb down that ladder, and have Abigail again.”

Daddy’s plan did work and they got Abigail back and they hugged Abigail and ran home.
“Don’t forget the ladder!” said Mommy to Daddy.
And Daddy said, “OK.” And he grabbed the ladder and went home.

They all lived happily ever after.
The End.

Week 19 – And They Lived Happily Ever After

Emily

We read the first part of “Rosie’s Special Surprise”

“She looked out over the woods and…”

Rosie was lost. Then a deer came up and she said, “Follow me.” And the deer led Nosy Rosie rabbit back home. Father Rabbit said that she would have her surprise tomorrow. Then she found out what the surprise is. The surprise was that Father Rabbit had left delicious chocolate on a rock! Then Nosy Rosie ate up all the chocolate!

The End